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J H Haynes Ford Capri II 1600 & 2000
- Good RECEIVE A FREE BOOKMARK WITH EACH ORDER PLACED Some creases to cover and spine. We are a family run business based on the edge of the Cotswolds in the UK. All books are wrapped in new padded envelopes/heavy duty cardboard envelopes and delivered using Royal Mail, with an Email confirmation of despatch. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Car Books Ltd]
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Oliva , Joan (fl. 1570-1614) Illuminated manuscript portolan chart on vellum heightened in Gold
Marseilles 1600 This portolan is an extremely rare example of Oliva's work. It is a highly decorative and sumptuous work rather than a purely functional tool for navigators, and it originates from the same atlas, probably created for a wealthy patron. Shown is an island that was a Spanish possession at the time: Sicily, which became a territory of Peter of Aragon in 1282 and reverted to the Spanish Crown after the unification of Spain under Ferdinand and Isabella in 1479; and Sardinia, which became a territory of Jaume II of Aragon in 1323 and also reverted to Spain in 1479. Sumptuously heightened in gold leaf, they survive in excellent condition. The coastline is drawn in blue with smaller islands shown in red. Rivers are marked as blue and highlighted in white. Towns are represented by generic buildings and labeled in brown ink. Crosses denote the location of churches. Principal towns are indicated in red calligraphy and bear flags decorated with gold leaf. The interior of the chart is adorned with conventional symbols for mountains, while the whole is decorated with rhumb lines and set within a gilded border. The rhumb lines meet at a central point, an elaborate compass rose, which orients the map (to the south in the case of Sicily, and to the east in the case of Sardinia) and serves as a reminder that portolan charts such as these had their origins in the navigational needs of seafaring populations. On the chart, the title is set in a banner at the upper edge of the chart and within it is the coat of arms of Spain, with the Habsburg black eagle and striped panels in red and gold leaf. [Bookseller: W. Graham Arader III gallery]
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Oliva, Joan (Fl. 1570-1614) Illuminated Manuscript Portolan Chart on Vellum Heightened in Gold
1600. This portolan is an extremely rare example of Oliva's work. It is a highly decorative and sumptuous work rather than a purely functional tool for navigators, and it originates from the same atlas, probably created for a wealthy patron. Shown is an island that was a Spanish possession at the time: Sicily, which became a territory of Peter of Aragon in 1282 and reverted to the Spanish Crown after the unification of Spain under Ferdinand and Isabella in 1479; and Sardinia, which became a territory of Jaume II of Aragon in 1323 and also reverted to Spain in 1479. Sumptuously heightened in gold leaf, they survive in excellent condition. The coastline is drawn in blue with smaller islands shown in red. Rivers are marked as blue and highlighted in white. Towns are represented by generic buildings and labeled in brown ink. Crosses denote the location of churches. Principal towns are indicated in red calligraphy and bear flags decorated with gold leaf. The interior of the chart is adorned with conventional symbols for mountains, while the whole is decorated with rhumb lines and set within a gilded border. The rhumb lines meet at a central point, an elaborate compass rose, which orients the map (to the south in the case of Sicily, and to the east in the case of Sardinia) and serves as a reminder that portolan charts such as these had their origins in the navigational needs of seafaring populations. On the chart, the title is set in a banner at the upper edge of the chart and within it is the coat of arms of Spain, with the Habsburg black eagle and striped panels in red and gold leaf. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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Oliva , Joan (fl. 1570-1614) Illuminated manuscript portolan chart on vellum heightened in Gold
Marseilles, 1600 This portolan is an extremely rare example of Oliva's work. It is a highly decorative and sumptuous work rather than a purely functional tool for navigators, and it originates from the same atlas, probably created for a wealthy patron. Shown is an island that was a Spanish possession at the time: Sicily, which became a territory of Peter of Aragon in 1282 and reverted to the Spanish Crown after the unification of Spain under Ferdinand and Isabella in 1479; and Sardinia, which became a territory of Jaume II of Aragon in 1323 and also reverted to Spain in 1479. Sumptuously heightened in gold leaf, they survive in excellent condition. The coastline is drawn in blue with smaller islands shown in red. Rivers are marked as blue and highlighted in white. Towns are represented by generic buildings and labeled in brown ink. Crosses denote the location of churches. Principal towns are indicated in red calligraphy and bear flags decorated with gold leaf. The interior of the chart is adorned with conventional symbols for mountains, while the whole is decorated with rhumb lines and set within a gilded border. The rhumb lines meet at a central point, an elaborate compass rose, which orients the map (to the south in the case of Sicily, and to the east in the case of Sardinia) and serves as a reminder that portolan charts such as these had their origins in the navigational needs of seafaring populations. On the chart, the title is set in a banner at the upper edge of the chart and within it is the coat of arms of Spain, with the Habsburg black eagle and striped panels in red and gold leaf.. [Bookseller: Arader Galleries]
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GILBERT, William. De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure;
London: Peter Short, 1600 Physiologia nova, plurimus & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata. First Edition of the first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research. Gilbert was chiefly concerned with magnetism; but as a digression he discusses in his second book the attractive effect of amber (electrum), and thus may be regarded as the founder of electrical science. He coined the terms 'electricity,' 'electric force' and 'electric attraction' (PMM). In Book One Gilbert introduced his new basic idea that the earth is a gigantic lodestone and thus has magnetic properties while in Book Two, his observations on the amber effect introduced the vocabulary of electrics, and is the basis for Gilbert's place in the history of electricity (DSB). Folio (290 � 188 mm). Contemporary calf over wooden boards, metal furniture and clasps; rebacked, one catch missing, covers rubbed. Woodcut device (McKerrow 119) on title, large woodcut arms on verso, numerous text woodcuts, some full-page, large folding woodcut diagram (lightly browned), historiated woodcut capitals, head- and tailpieces. Provenance: Leiden, Royal Academy (Acad. Lugd. stamp on binding, and ink lettered at top and bottom edges, Publica auctoritate vendidi W.G. Pluym duplicate stamp on title); bookplate of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman (1866�1942), president of the New York Historical Society, member of the Grolier Club, whose important collection of astrolabes was acquired by the Smithsonian in 1959. Lightly browned at beginning and end, a good copy. [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: Peter Harrington Antiquarian Bookseller]
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GILBERT WILLIAM. "De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova, plurimis & argumentiis, & experimentis demonstrata."
Londra, Pietro Short, 1600. "In-folio; 8 cc., 240 pp, una tavola ripiegata fuori testo dopo la p. 201; bella legatura italiana coeva in tutta pergamena morbida. Lievi macchioline, ma ottimo esemplare genuino. Ex libris alla prima carta." "Prima edizione del primo e pi� importante trattato scientifico inglese basato sul metodo della ricerca sperimentale. Opera che fonda la scienza del magnetismo e dell'elettricit�. Gilbert usa in questo libro per la prima volta i termini ""elettricit�"", ""forza elettrica"" ed ""attrazione elettrica"". Nota e documentata � l'influenza di questo libro sul pensiero di Keplero, Bacone, Boyle, Newton e Galileo. Il primo libro ""deals with the history of magnetism from the earliest legends about the lodestone to the facts and theories known to Gilbert's contemporaries... In the last chapter of book I, Gilbert introduced his new basic idea which was to explain all terrestrial magnetic phenomena: his postulate that the earth is a giant lodestone and thus had magnetic properties... The remaining five books of the De magnete are concerned with the five magnetic movements: coition, direction, variation, declination and revolution. Before he began his discussion of coition, however, Gilbert carefully distinguished the attraction due to the amber effect from that caused by the lodestone. This section, chapter 2 of book II, established the study of the amber effect as a discipline separate from that of magnetic phenomena, introduced the vocabulary of electrics, and is the basis for Gilbert's place in the history of electricity."" DSB V p. 397." Dibner 54. Horblit 41. PMM 107. Wheeler Gift 72. [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum]
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CASSERIUS, Julius Placentius. First accurate beautifully illustrated monograph on the larynx ever De vocis auditusque organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatibus duobus explicata.
Ferrara, Victorius Baldinus, 1600-1601.. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary vellum with spine lettered in ink. Engraved frontispiece of an anatomical theatre, portrait of Blankaart by Gouwe after D. van Plas with a Latin poem by Lud. Smitds and 51 very detailed and beautifully engraved anatomical full-page plates. 30 lvs. (incl. title and 2 portaits), 192, 126 pp. and 1 leaf.. Beautiful work on the anatomy of the vocal and auditory organs written by the well-known anatomist and surgeon Julius Casserius (1561-1616) who studied at the famous University at Padus with the renowned Girolamo Fabrizzio, public lecturer in Padus from 1565. In later years Casseri achieved such fame as an anatomist that the universities of Parma and Turinnoffered him the chairs of anatomy. He, however, always refused because he was convinced he would succeed Fabrizio, the chair once helt by Vesalius. This work, here in its original edition, was his first publication and it is composed of 2 separate books that were issued together, although the second one, on the subject 'hearing' and the anatomy of the ear, is dated a year earlier than the first one, which is on the anatomy of the larynx. Casserius made some attributions of considerable importance to the science of anatomy of the sense organs, particularly the vocal and auditory organs. Most of the results of his studies, are based on zo�tomic research and many of the 34 large and beautifully designed and engraved plates show zo�tomic representations, among which are the vocals of a grasshopper, a dog, a rat and a frog. The research is extended to the superficial and deep muscles. For the first time a precise description of the two cdricoid-thyroid muscles is given. The description of the superior and inferior laryngeal nerves is accurate, as are his assumptions that they originate from cranial nerves and his statements of the function of the laryngeal nerves. He also deals with phonation: the nature of sound and the concepts regarding the nature of the human voice, and the importance of the larynx in general and the reasons for its shape, position and structure. The last 12 plates, in the second treatise, are dealing with the ear. In this second treatise Casserius describes the anatomy of the ear and deals with vascularization and the innervation of the middle and inner ear and the physiology of hearing. This work was the first accurate publication on the larynx ever by the 'Felix chirurgus, insignis anatomicus', as Haller calls him.The engraved plates are of superior quality and very detailed and exact. In his work, Casserius mentions the German artist Joseph Maurer who lived for a while in his house, with the specific purpose of making the anatomic drawings. Recent research indicates that the baroque and allegorical title, which depicts all kinds of anatomical figures like the skeletons of frogs, birds and dogs together with human skeletons, of which some have wings, and almost certainly the 2 portraits as well, are most likely the work of Jacopo Ligozzi. Good copy with the bookplate of Dr. T. Broeksmit and an early ownership's entry of Gerrit Backer on the second fly-leaf. Wellcome 1333; Krivatsky 2199; Morton 286; LeFanu, Notable medical books (Indianapolis, 1976), p. 57; DSB 3, p. 98-9; see also Roberts & Tomlinson, The fabric of the human body (Oxford 1992), pp. 259-263; Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science & Medicine (San Francisco 1991), 410. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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MONTE, Guido Ubaldo, Marchese Perspectivae Libri Sex.
Large woodcut diagram on title & more than 300 woodcut diagrams in the text. 2 p.l., 310, [1] pp. Folio, cont. dark green morocco, arms of Charles de Valois on sides & his monogram in corners (Olivier 2600, fers 6 & 7), triple gilt fillet round sides, flat spine divided into seven compartments, 6 with monogram repeated, a.e.g. Pesaro: G. Concordia, 1600.First edition of this important landmark in the history of the science of perspective and a precious copy from the library of Charles of Valois (1573-1650), finely bound in contemporary green morocco with his arms. Charles was the natural son of Charles IX and was also Count, then Duke of Angoul�me. He served in numerous military campaigns and was imprisoned for a number of years for having taking part in several intrigues. Released in 1616, he was appointed ambassador to Germany in 1620. His considerable collection of books was left by his elder son, Louis de Valois, Comte d'Alais, to the Minims of La Guiche in Charolais. Its library was dispersed at the time of the French Revolution. Monte (1545-1607), was Galileo's patron and friend for twenty years and was possibly the greatest single influence on the mechanics of Galileo. This work "is the culminating book in the phase of mathematical perspective with which we have been concerned.His Perspectivae libri sex provided a definitive and often original analysis of the mathematics of perspectival projection, in a far more extended way than either Commandino or Benedetti had aimed to do.Guidobaldo's book rightly came to be regarded as the main source of reference for anyone seriously interested in the underlying geometry of perspectival projection. But this is not to say that he made life at all easy for the painter who wishes to approach his text. His only substantial treatment of a representational technique occurred in his final book, in which he analysed the scenographic perspective of stage design."�Kemp, The Science of Art, pp. 89-91�(& see his detailed account of the contents of the book). Galileo apparently read the work in manuscript in 1594 and the illustrations of shadows on the lunar surface in his Sidereus Nuncius (1610) may be based on Book Five (see S.Y. Edgerton in Art Journal 44, Fall 1984, p. 226). A magnificent copy preserved in a morocco-backed box. 17th-century ownership inscription on title "Ex Bibliotheca Minimorum Guichiensium." Besterman, Old Art Books, p. 74. D.S.B., IX, p. 487-89. Riccardi, II, 179. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.]
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Gilbert, William De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, Et De Magno Magnete Tellure;
Peter Short, 1600. Physiologia nova, plurimus & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata. Folio (290 � 188 mm). Contemporary calf over wooden boards, metal furniture and clasps; rebacked, one catch missing, covers rubbed. Housed ina black cloth solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Woodcut device (McKerrow 119) on title, large woodcut arms on verso, numerous text woodcuts, some full-page, large folding woodcut diagram (lightly browned), historiated woodcut capitals, head-and tailpieces. Provenance: Leiden, Royal Academy (Acad. Lugd. stamp on binding, and ink lettered at top and bottom edges, Publica auctoritate vendidi W.G. Pluym duplicate stamp on title); bookplate of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman (1866�1942), president of the New York Historical Society, member of the Grolier Club, whose important collection of astrolabes was acquired by the Smithsonian in 1959. Lightly browned at beginning and end, a good copy. First Edition of the first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research. Gilbert was chiefly concerned with magnetism; but as a digression he discusses in his second book the attractive effect of amber (electrum), and thus may be regarded as the founder of electrical science. He coined the terms 'electricity, ' 'electric force' and 'electric attraction' (PMM). In Book One Gilbert introduced his new basic idea � that the earth is a gigantic lodestone and thus has magnetic properties while in Book Two, his observations on the amber effect introduced the vocabulary of electrics, and is the basis for Gilbert's place in the history of electricity (DSB). Dibner Heralds of Science 54; Grolier/Horblit 41; Heilbron, pp. 169-179; Norman 905; PMM 107; STC 11883; Wellcome 2830. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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CASSERIUS, JULIUS PLACENTIUS. DE VOCIS AUDITUSQUE ORGANIS HISTORIA ANATOMICA SINGULARI FIDE METHODO AC INDUSTRIA CONCINNATA TRACTATIBUS DUOBUS EXPLICATA. FERRARA, VICTORIUS BALDINUS, 1600-1601.
2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary vellum with spine lettered in ink. Engraved frontispiece of an anatomical theatre, portrait of Blankaart by Gouwe after D. van Plas with a Latin poem by Lud. Smitds and 51 very detailed and beautifully engraved anatomical full-page plates. 30 lvs. (incl. title and 2 portaits), 192, 126 pp. and 1 leaf. Beautiful work on the anatomy of the vocal and auditory organs written by the well-known anatomist and surgeon Julius Casserius (1561-1616) who studied at the famous University at Padus with the renowned Girolamo Fabrizzio, public lecturer in Padus from 1565. In later years Casseri achieved such fame as an anatomist that the universities of Parma and Turinnoffered him the chairs of anatomy. He, however, always refused because he was convinced he would succeed Fabrizio, the chair once helt by Vesalius. This work, here in its original edition, was his first publication and it is composed of 2 separate books that were issued together, although the second one, on the subject 'hearing' and the anatomy of the ear, is dated a year earlier than the first one, which is on the anatomy of the larynx. Casserius made some attributions of considerable importance to the science of anatomy of the sense organs, particularly the vocal and auditory organs. Most of the results of his studies, are based on zooetomic research and many of the 34 large and beautifully designed and engraved plates show zooetomic representations, among which are the vocals of a grasshopper, a dog, a rat and a frog. The research is extended to the superficial and deep muscles. For the first time a precise description of the two cdricoid-thyroid muscles is given. The description of the superior and inferior laryngeal nerves is accurate, as are his assumptions that they originate from cranial nerves and his statements of the function of the laryngeal nerves. He also deals with phonation: the nature of sound and the concepts regarding the nature of the human voice, and the importance of the larynx in general and the reasons for its shape, position and structure. The last 12 plates, in the second treatise, are dealing with the ear. In this second treatise Casserius describes the anatomy of the ear and deals with vascularization and the innervation of the middle and inner ear and the physiology of hearing. This work was the first accurate publication on the larynx ever by the 'Felix chirurgus, insignis anatomicus', as Haller calls him.The engraved plates are of superior quality and very detailed and exact. In his work, Casserius mentions the German artist Joseph Maurer who lived for a while in his house, with the specific purpose of making the anatomic drawings. Recent research indicates that the baroque and allegorical title, which depicts all kinds of anatomical figures like the skeletons of frogs, birds and dogs together with human skeletons, of which some have wings, and almost certainly the 2 portraits as well, are most likely the work of Jacopo Ligozzi. Good copy with the bookplate of Dr. T. Broeksmit and an early ownership's entry of Gerrit Backer on the second fly-leaf. Wellcome 1333; Krivatsky 2199; Morton 286; LeFanu, Notable medical books (Indianapolis, 1976), p. 57; DSB 3, p. 98-9; see also Roberts & Tomlinson, The fabric of the human body (Oxford 1992), pp. 259-263; Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science & Medicine (San Francisco 1991), 410. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV�-�'t Goy-Houten�-�]
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Gilbert, William De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, Et De Magno Magnete Tellure;
Peter Short, 1600. Physiologia nova, plurimus & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata. Folio (290 � 188 mm). Contemporary calf over wooden boards, metal furniture and clasps; rebacked, one catch missing, covers rubbed. Housed ina black cloth solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Woodcut device (McKerrow 119) on title, large woodcut arms on verso, numerous text woodcuts, some full-page, large folding woodcut diagram (lightly browned), historiated woodcut capitals, head-and tailpieces. Provenance: Leiden, Royal Academy (Acad. Lugd. stamp on binding, and ink lettered at top and bottom edges, Publica auctoritate vendidi W.G. Pluym duplicate stamp on title); bookplate of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman (1866�1942), president of the New York Historical Society, member of the Grolier Club, whose important collection of astrolabes was acquired by the Smithsonian in 1959. Lightly browned at beginning and end, a good copy. First Edition of the first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research. Gilbert was chiefly concerned with magnetism; but as a digression he discusses in his second book the attractive effect of amber (electrum), and thus may be regarded as the founder of electrical science. He coined the terms 'electricity, ' 'electric force' and 'electric attraction' (PMM). In Book One Gilbert introduced his new basic idea � that the earth is a gigantic lodestone and thus has magnetic properties while in Book Two, his observations on the amber effect introduced the vocabulary of electrics, and is the basis for Gilbert's place in the history of electricity (DSB). Dibner Heralds of Science 54; Grolier/Horblit 41; Heilbron, pp. 169-179; Norman 905; PMM 107; STC 11883; Wellcome 2830. [Bookseller: Alibris]
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GUATEMALA, Audiencia de los Collection of 56 royal decrees signed by Philip III (some with a stamp) to the Audiencia of Guatemala. Manuscripts on paper, various places (Valladolid, Madrid, San Lorenzo, etc.) from
, , @18 May 1600 to 15 June 1628. - Folio, 100 leaves carefully removed from a bound volume and now stored in mylar sleeves in a blue cloth slipcase. In very good condition. The documents represent a remarkable, unpublished source for the history of the High Court of Guatemala during the first quarter of the seventeenth century, covering such subjects as the conquest and pacification of Indians in Honduras, granting of encomiendas, diversion of royal monies, establishment of missions and convents and disciplining of politically active priests. They illustrate local customs and call attention to previous decrees that the Court had ignored. The documents are from the presidencies of Dr. Alonso Criado de Castilla (1598-1611), D. Antonio PŽrez Ayala Castilla y Rojas (1611-26) and Dr. Diego de Acu–a (1626-33). More detailed description and calendar available upon request. @ [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Richard C. Ramer Old and Rare Books]
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BLUET D'ARBERES (BERNARD DE); LES OEUVRES DU COMTE DE PERMISSION. PARIS 1600-1604
78 pieces reliees en 2 vol. in-12, velin a' recouvrement du XIXe siecle. C Le comte de Permission etait une espece de fou qui, pour vivre, avait imagine' de faire imprimer ses reveries amphigouriques, qu'il distribuait lui-meme dans les rues et dans les maisons, a' ceux qui voulaient bien lui faire quelques generosites E'. C C'est Charles Nodier, qui, le premier a classe' Bluet d'Arberes dans le Charenton du Parnasse. Ce poete, moitie' fou, moitie' sot, se qualifiait lui-meme de comte de permission et de chevalier des ligues des treize cantons suisses. Ne' en 1566, au hameau d'Arberes dans le pays de Gex, il avait commence' par etre berger. Certaines visions apocalyptiques le firent d'abord passer pour inspirer aux yeux des pasteurs de son village ; quelques gentillatres savoyards s'en servirent ensuite comme d'un bouffon, et les grandes dames prirent plaisir a' l'accabler d'avances peu compromettante pour elles. Jusqu'ou' allerent les choses ? on n'en sait rien ; mais comme, a' cette epoque, un berger n'etait pas plus un homme qu'un valet, on peut croire que de nombreuses libertes lui furent permises. Le bruit de ses succes aupres des Savoyardes le preceda quand il vint a' Paris, et assura son succes dans cette ville ; les grands seigneurs se le disputerent, comme l'avaient fait ses compatriotes, et ce sot, qui avoue lui-meme qu'il ne savait ni lire li ecrire, fit fortune E'. Ensemble de la plus grande rarete constitue' de l'Intitulation et de 77 livrets (1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22 (incomplet), 23, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33 (incomplet), 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77 (incomplet), 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100). Ce recueil est illustre' de nombreuses figures et blasons graves sur bois, dont un certain nombre sont des bois originaux du milieu du XVIe siecle ; parmi ces illustrations figurent les portraits des personnages charitables qui sont venus en aide a' l'auteur. Il n'existe pas d'exemplaire complet de ce recueil qui compte une premiere serie de cent treize livrets plus une deuxieme serie numerotee 141 a' 173. Les numeros 86 a' 90 et les numeros 114 a' 140 demeurent inconnus. La BNF possede une collection incomplete de la premiere serie et les numeros 141-173. Reunion exceptionnelle provenant de la bibliotheque Pierre Louys. Brunet I, 979 ; Graesse I, 443 ; Nodier, Bibliographie des fous ; Delepierre, Histoire litteraire des fous, p.107 a' 162 ; Blavier p. 62. [Bookseller: Libraire BONNEFOI�-�Paris�-�France]
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Hakluyt, Richard: THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOIAGES, TRAFFIQUES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION, MADE BY SEA OR OVER- LAND, TO THE REMOTE AND FARTHEST DISTANT QUARTERS OF THE EARTH, AT ANY TIME WITHIN THE COMPASSE OF THESE 1500 YEERES.AND LASTLY, THE MEMORABLE DEFEATE OF THE SPANISH HUGE ARMADA, ANNO 1588, AND THE FAMOUS VICTORIE ATCHIEVED AT THE CITIE OF CADIZ, 1596.
London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, -1600. 1598 - Three volumes in bound two. [24],619; [16],312,204; [16],868pp. Folio. Late 19th-century morocco, expertly rebacked, raised bands, spines gilt. Moderate edge wear, third volume worn at spine ends. Bookplates on front pastedowns. "Voyage to Cadiz" leaves present in their first issue according to Church (pp.607-619 in the first volume) supplied from another copy and with extensions to the margins of the leaves. Overall a very good set. In half morocco clamshell boxes, spines gilt. The first enlarged edition of Hakluyt's voyages. In fact, this is an entirely different book from his 1589 compilation, with the first volume containing a supplied copy of the rare "Voyage to Cadiz" on pages 607-619, which was suppressed by order of Queen Elizabeth after the disgrace of the Earl of Essex; and with the 1598 titlepage reading: "the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz." As usual, this set does not contain the map, which is found in only a few copies. There appear to be two different states of the printer's ornaments on the titlepage of the first volume. This copy has a border of fruit and flowers surrounding "THE" and the ornamental figure above the imprint shows a center medallion flanked by cupids. The other state has a typographical border around "THE" and the ornamental figure above the imprint shows three birds. These variants have been overlooked by most bibliographers. Hakluyt took such patriotic pride in his countrymen's exploits in the fields of travel and adventure that he devoted his life to preserving the records of all English voyages, and to advancing further means for the promotion of wealth and commerce for the nation. "Hakluyt was a vigorous propagandist and empire-builder; his purpose was to further British expansion overseas. He saw Britain's greatest opportunity in the colonization of America, which he advocated chiefly for economic reasons, but also to spread Protestantism, and to oust Spain" - Hill. The third volume is devoted almost entirely to the Americas, the South Seas, and various circumnavigations of the world. It includes the accounts of Niza, Coronado, Ruiz, and Espejo on New Mexico; Ulloa, Drake, and others on California; and Raleigh's account of Guiana. The greatest assemblage of travel accounts and navigations to all parts of the world collected up to its time, and a primary source for early New World exploration. This volume contains 243 narratives of voyages and travels in the New World, consisting of some one million seven hundred thousand words. [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Americana]
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Guatemala (colony). Audiencia. An unpublished collection of 56 royal decrees signed by Felipe III (some with a stamp) to the Royal Audiencia of Guatemala.
Valladolid, Madrid, San Lorenzo, etc. 18 May 1600 - 15 June 1628 Folio. 100 ff. (some blank). The audiencia (or high court) was, according to Clarence Haring (the dean, during the 1940s and 1950s, of American scholars of colonial Latin America), "the most important and interesting institution in the government of the Spanish Indies." He rightly points out that "It was the center, the core, of the administrative system, the principal curb upon oppression and illegality of the viceroys and other governors."The first audiencia was established in Santo Domingo in 1508 with others springing up as the Spaniards discovered and settled North and South America. The Audiencia of Guatemala came into existence on 20 November 1542 through the New Laws and had a troubled and peripatetic beginning: The documents that compose this collection do not deal with things quite as dramatic as either the judicial insanity or the big-time smuggling of those earliest years, but they do, nonetheless, document various unstudied aspects of the presidencies of Dr. Alonso Criado de Castilla (1598-1611), Don Antonio P�rez Ayala Castilla y Rojas (1611-26), and Dr. Diego de Acu�a (1626-33). The royal cedulas fall into three broad categories: requests for information, demands for action, and orders ending existing practices.An example of the Crown's requests for information is a decree of 4 December 1601. The king would sometimes receive complaints that were best handled extrajudicially, often involving political activities of clerics, over whom the civil and criminal courts did not have jurisdiction and with whom, the authorities felt, the ecclesiastical courts would deal ineffectively. In one case, the governor of Honduras had complained to the king that the dean of the church in Comayagua was disrupting attempts to recruit men for the defense of the port of Trujillo: The king, investigating, expects that the audiencia's information will be unbiased because of its physical and emotional distance from Honduras and its local politics and squabbling.Another, much more ominous, request was handed down on 28 June 1621. The king has "discovered" that "foreigners" are living in the New World. Since they are there illegally, he wants a list of them and correlated inventories of their possessions and land holdings. This was the beginning of the oppression of Portuguese settlers who had moved to the New World during the "Babylonian captivity" of Portugal by Spain.The royal demands for action were usually grants of royal patronage or largesse. On 10 July 1600 the king orders the audiencia to administer the terms of his decree granting a one-time-only gift of money to the cathedral in Santiago, and on 4 July 1601 he orders the court to give the mission church in Trinidad de Sonsonate a chalice and a bell.The Crown was fully aware that the physical distance between it and its New World provinces would result in the development of local customs and practices, and to a l arge extent it tolerated these deviations from "the norm." For example, on 31 May 1600, Felipe III officially accepts the local custom of the audiencia's appointing the majordomo of the Royal Hospital. But at other times the Crown felt put upon and ordered the end of "local practices." On 12 December 1619 the king orders the audiencia to stop subdividing encomiendas and parcelling the subsections out as parts of government pensions.The documents in this remarkable collection are unpublished. They are an important unused source for the history of the high court during the first quarter of the 17th century. Through them we find out what the "local customs" of patronage and of usurpation of royal prerogative were. Through the reiteration of previously issued decrees we discover which decrees the court was ignoring, using the famous doctrine of "obedezco pero no cumplo." Through these decrees we glimpse royal patronage and royal displeasure. Clarence H. Haring, The Spanish Empire in America, pp. 126, 75-76, and 113-14; Murdo J. MacLeod, Spanish Central America, pp. 390-91, on the audiencia's earliest years. The decrees have been very carefully removed from a bound volume and, now stored in Mylar sleeves, are housed in a blue cloth slipcase with blue morocco spine labels. This major source for the study of the Royal Audiencia of Guatemala is in very good condition. [Bookseller: The Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscript]
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[GUATEMALA, Audiencia de los @Collection of 56 royal decrees signed by Philip III (some with a stamp) to the Audiencia of Guatemala. Manuscripts on paper, various places (Valladolid, Madrid, San Lorenzo, etc.) from
, , @18 May 1600 to 15 June 1628. Folio, 100 leaves carefully removed from a bound volume and now stored in mylar sleeves in a blue cloth slipcase. In very good condition. The documents represent a remarkable, unpublished source for the history of the High Court of Guatemala during the first quarter of the seventeenth century, covering such subjects as the conquest and pacification of Indians in Honduras, granting of encomiendas, diversion of royal monies, establishment of missions and convents and disciplining of politically active priests. They illustrate local customs and call attention to previous decrees that the Court had ignored. The documents are from the presidencies of Dr. Alonso Criado de Castilla (1598-1611), D. Antonio P�rez Ayala Castilla y Rojas (1611-26) and Dr. Diego de Acu�a (1626-33).More detailed description and calendar available upon request.@ [Bookseller: Richard C. Ramer]
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Guatemala (colony). Audiencia An unpublished collection of 56 royal decrees signed by Felipe III
Valladolid, Madrid, San Lorenzo, etc., 18 May 1600 - 15 June 1628. The decrees have been very carefully removed from a bound volume and, now stored in Mylar sleeves, are housed in a blue cloth slipcase with blue morocco spine labels. This major source for the study of the Royal Audiencia of Guatemala is in very good condition.. Folio. 100 ff. (some blank). . The audiencia (or high court) was, according to Clarence Haring (the dean, during the 1940s and 1950s, of American scholars of colonial Latin America), "the most important and interesting institution in the government of the Spanish Indies." He rightly points out that "It was the center, the core, of the administrative system, the principal curb upon oppression and illegality of the viceroys and other governors."#11; The first audiencia was established in Santo Domingo in 1508 with others springing up as the Spaniards discovered and settled North and South America. The Audiencia of Guatemala came into existence on 20 November 1542 through the New Laws and had a troubled and peripatetic beginning: The documents that compose this collection do not deal with things quite as dramatic as either the judicial insanity or the big-time smuggling of those earliest years, but they do, nonetheless, document various unstudied aspects of the presidencies of Dr. Alonso Criado de Castilla (1598-1611), Don Antonio P!rez Ayala Castilla y Rojas (1611-26), and Dr. Diego de Acu!a (1626-33). The royal cedulas fall into three broad categories: requests for information, demands for action, and orders ending existing practices.#11; An example of the Crown's requests for information is a decree of 4 December 1601. The king would sometimes receive complaints that were best handled extrajudicially, often involving political activities of clerics, over whom the civil and criminal courts did not have jurisdiction and with whom, the authorities felt, the ecclesiastical courts would deal ineffectively. In one case, the governor of Honduras had complained to the king that the dean of the church in Comayagua was disrupting attempts to recruit men for the defense of the port of Trujillo: The king, investigating, expects that the audiencia's information will be unbiased because of its physical and emotional distance from Honduras and its local politics and squabbling.#11; Another, much more ominous, request was handed down on 28 June 1621. The king has "discovered" that "foreigners" are living in the New World. Since they are there illegally, he wants a list of them and correlated inventories of their possessions and land holdings. This was the beginning of the oppression of Portuguese settlers who had moved to the New World during the "Babylonian captivity" of Portugal by Spain.#11; The royal demands for action were usually grants of royal patronage or largesse. On 10 July 1600 the king orders the audiencia to administer the terms of his decree granting a one-time-only gift of money to the cathedral in Santiago, and on 4 July 1601 he orders the court to give the mission church in Trinidad de Sonsonate a chalice and a bell.#11; The Crown was fully aware that the physical distance between it and its New World provinces would result in the development of local customs and practices, and to a large extent it tolerated these deviations from "the norm." For example, on 31 May 1600, Felipe III officially accepts the local custom of the audiencia's appointing the majordomo of the Royal Hospital. But at other times the Crown felt put upon and ordered the end of "local practices." On 12 December 1619 the king orders the audiencia to stop subdividing encomiendas and parcelling the subsections out as parts of government pensions.#11; The documents in this remarkable collection are unpublished. They are an important unused source for the history of the high court during the first quarter of the 17th century. Through them we find out what the "local customs" of patronage and of usurpation of royal prerogative were. Through the reiteration of previously issued decrees we discover which decrees the court was ignoring, using the famous doctrine of "obedezco pero no cumplo." Through these decrees we glimpse royal patronage and royal displeasure. [Bookseller: SessaBks, A Division of Philadelphia Rar]
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LAAN, [Adolf] van der. Zee, Land, en Stroom Lust Bestaande in . Verscheyde Gezigten Binnen en Buytenlandsche Vaartuygen en Scheepen zoo als men de zelve Heedendaags Bouwt. naar 't Leeven Geteekent van Verscheyde Liefhebbers, en in't Kooper Gebragt door A. van der Laan - Delices de Mer, Terre et de Rivieres . - Delight Full Sea, Land, and River Prospects .Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, [after 1726]. Oblong folio (26 x 39.5 cm). Full-page engraved title-page, 20 engraved plates depicting different types of ships.BOUND WITH: AKEN, Jan van. [Four engraved views of the Rhine].[Amsterdam], Nicolaas Visscher, [before 1726]. 4 engraved plates with landscapes. Contemporary boards.
- Ad 1: Cat. Scheepsmodellen. 1600-1900 (NHSM; 1943), p. 167; De Groot & Vorstman, Dutch Sailing Ships, p. 17, 23; Maggs, Bibl. Nautica II, no. 631; not in Bruzelius, Cat. NHSM, Polak; Thieme & Becker XXII, pp. 159-160 (V.d. Laan); ad 2: Nagler, Allg. K�nsterlexikon I, p. 32; Wurzbach I, p. 8 (Van Aken); Wurzbach II, pp. 549-551 (Saftleven). Ad 1: Rare work with twenty beautifully engraved plates of sailing ships. The plates depict different types of ships (inland and seagoing vessels, merchant, VOC, whaling and warships), mostly situated close to harbours such as Harlingen, Enkhuizen and Rotterdam. Additionally, the illustrations show several sailing manoeuvres such as getting under sail, tacking, jibing, preparing for anchoring, etc. The two final plates show a sea battle between two Maltese frigates and three Algerian privateers, and a French naval ship riding at its anchors in a storm. The illustrations measure c. 19.5 x 33 cm, excluding the engraved text in French, Dutch and English captions underneath (plate edges c. 21.5 x 34 cm). At the lower right corner the name "Petrus Schenk Exc." has been engraved. The plates are unnumbered. Adolf, not Adriaan, van der Laan (c. 1690- after 1740) is known for a "sichere und saubere Grabstichelf�hrung und lebendiger Ausdruck" (Thieme & Becker), which is also the hallmark of the present nautical plates. They are a combination of meticulous eye for detail and expert knowledge of ships and sailing, and have been drawn with flair.The present series contains the following twenty illustrations (because the French and English text is curious to say the least, we list the text of the Dutch captions): 1. Een Gaffel Schuyt, en de Have van Harlingen; 2. Een Smack, en 't Gezicht van Enckhuyse; 3. Een Koffe Schip, Nevens Broeck by Enckhuysen; 4. Een Vriesche Smack, Nevens Ropsijl van 't Westen; 5. Een Turf Schip, en de Sandhoek van Amsterdam; 6. Een Zeeuws Beurtman, en't Geitsteck by Harlingen; 7. Een Smal Schip; 8. Een Hollands Hekboot, in zyn wenden Leggende; 9. Een Hollands Fregat ter Coopvaardy, in zyn Wenden; 10. Twee Hollandse Oost-indische Scheepen, en een Hollands Fregattje (sic); 11. Een Groenlands Vaarder, en de Have van Rotterdam; 12. Een Hollans (sic) Oorlogh Schip; 13. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 2.e Rang, voerende de Vice Admiraals Vlag, maakt zig gereed om ten anker te komen; 14. Een Oorlogh Schip; 15. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 4.e Rang, op zyn Engels gebouwt, ten Anker komende; 16. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip vande 4.e Rang op zyn Engels gebouwt zyn Fok op Gyende (sic); 17. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 5.e Rang, een drie maste Hoeker, en een Jagt; 18. Een Holands Oorlog Schip van de 5.e Rang, onder Zeyl gaande en Eenige Visschers Schuijten; 19. Een zee gevegt tusschen 2 Maltheser Oorlog Scheepen, en 3 Algierse Kapers; 20. Een Frans Oorlog Schip van de 4.e Rang, ryende voor syn Ankers in een Storm.Van der Laan has drawn several series with illustrations of ships, but the present one, Zee, Land en Stroom Lust should contain an engraved title and twenty plates (see Wurzbach II, p. 1) and not seventeen plates as given by Thieme & Becker (XXII, pp. 159-160). The series has been executed in a larger format of c. 21 x 34 cm (including captions) and smaller format (c. 14 x 21.5 cm). Illustration 20 (p. 17) in De Groot & Vorstman, a Zeeland passage boat (no. 6 in our copy), measures 21.2 x 34 cm, whereas illustration 31 (p. 23), a fourth rate Dutch man of war (no. 15 in our copy), measures 13.8 x 21.6 cm. The plates in our series have been executed in the larger format. The address on the title-page, "te bekoomen by Petrus Schenk, tot Amsterdam voor aan in de Kalver-straat, in N. Visschers Atlas," provides an indication for the date of the present series. Visscher's widow Elisabeth Verseyl, who had carried on her husband's business after his death, died in 1726, and the Visscher estate was sold off, among others to Petrus Schenk II (before 1698-1775). The engraved title in Dut [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books]
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BLUET D'ARBERES (Bernard Les Oeuvres du Comte de Permission.
Paris 1600-1604 - 78 pi�ces reli�es en 2 vol. in-12, v�lin � recouvrement du XIXe si�cle. � Le comte de Permission �tait une esp�ce de fou qui, pour vivre, avait imagin� de faire imprimer ses r�veries amphigouriques, qu'il distribuait lui-m�me dans les rues et dans les maisons, � ceux qui voulaient bien lui faire quelques g�n�rosit�s �. � C'est Charles Nodier, qui, le premier a class� Bluet d'Arb�res dans le Charenton du Parnasse. Ce po�te, moiti� fou, moiti� sot, se qualifiait lui-m�me de comte de permission et de chevalier des ligues des treize cantons suisses. N� en 1566, au hameau d'Arb�res dans le pays de Gex, il avait commenc� par �tre berger. Certaines visions apocalyptiques le firent d'abord passer pour inspirer aux yeux des pasteurs de son village ; quelques gentill�tres savoyards s'en servirent ensuite comme d'un bouffon, et les grandes dames prirent plaisir � l'accabler d'avances peu compromettante pour elles. Jusqu'o� all�rent les choses ? on n'en sait rien ; mais comme, � cette �poque, un berger n'�tait pas plus un homme qu'un valet, on peut croire que de nombreuses libert�s lui furent permises. Le bruit de ses succ�s aupr�s des Savoyardes le pr�c�da quand il vint � Paris, et assura son succ�s dans cette ville ; les grands seigneurs se le disput�rent, comme l'avaient fait ses compatriotes, et ce sot, qui avoue lui-m�me qu'il ne savait ni lire li �crire, fit fortune �. Ensemble de la plus grande raret� constitu� de l'Intitulation et de 77 livrets (1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22 (incomplet), 23, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33 (incomplet), 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77 (incomplet), 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100). Ce recueil est illustr� de nombreuses figures et blasons grav�s sur bois, dont un certain nombre sont des bois originaux du milieu du XVIe si�cle ; parmi ces illustrations figurent les portraits des personnages charitables qui sont venus en aide � l'auteur. Il n'existe pas d'exemplaire complet de ce recueil qui compte une premi�re s�rie de cent treize livrets plus une deuxi�me s�rie num�rot�e 141 � 173. Les num�ros 86 � 90 et les num�ros 114 � 140 demeurent inconnus. La BNF poss�de une collection incompl�te de la premi�re s�rie et les num�ros 141-173. R�union exceptionnelle provenant de la biblioth�que Pierre Louys. Brunet I, 979 ; Graesse I, 443 ; Nodier, Bibliographie des fous ; Delepierre, Histoire litt�raire des fous, p.107 � 162 ; Blavier p. 62. fou litt�raire,Litt�rature; [Bookseller: Bonnefoi Livres Anciens]
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LAAN, [Adolf] van der. Zee, Land, en Stroom Lust Bestaande in ... Verscheyde Gezigten Binnen en Buytenlandsche Vaartuygen en Scheepen zoo als men de zelve Heedendaags Bouwt. naar 't Leeven Geteekent van Verscheyde Liefhebbers, en in't Kooper Gebragt door A. van der Laan - Delices de Mer, Terre et de Rivieres ... - Delight Full Sea, Land, and River Prospects ...Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, [after 1726]. Oblong folio (26 x 39.5 cm). Full-page engraved title-page, 20 engraved plates depicting different types of ships.BOUND WITH: AKEN, Jan van. [Four engraved views of the Rhine].[Amsterdam], Nicolaas Visscher, [before 1...
Ad 1: Cat. Scheepsmodellen ... 1600-1900 (NHSM; 1943), p. 167; De Groot & Vorstman, Dutch Sailing Ships, p. 17, 23; Maggs, Bibl. Nautica II, no. 631; not in Bruzelius, Cat. NHSM, Polak; Thieme & Becker XXII, pp. 159-160 (V.d. Laan); ad 2: Nagler, Allg. K�nsterlexikon I, p. 32; Wurzbach I, p. 8 (Van Aken); Wurzbach II, pp. 549-551 (Saftleven). Ad 1: Rare work with twenty beautifully engraved plates of sailing ships. The plates depict different types of ships (inland and seagoing vessels, merchant, VOC, whaling and warships), mostly situated close to harbours such as Harlingen, Enkhuizen and Rotterdam. Additionally, the illustrations show several sailing manoeuvres such as getting under sail, tacking, jibing, preparing for anchoring, etc. The two final plates show a sea battle between two Maltese frigates and three Algerian privateers, and a French naval ship riding at its anchors in a storm. The illustrations measure c. 19.5 x 33 cm, excluding the engraved text in French, Dutch and English captions underneath (plate edges c. 21.5 x 34 cm). At the lower right corner the name "Petrus Schenk Exc." has been engraved. The plates are unnumbered. Adolf, not Adriaan, van der Laan (c. 1690- after 1740) is known for a "sichere und saubere Grabstichelf�hrung und lebendiger Ausdruck" (Thieme & Becker), which is also the hallmark of the present nautical plates. They are a combination of meticulous eye for detail and expert knowledge of ships and sailing, and have been drawn with flair.The present series contains the following twenty illustrations (because the French and English text is curious to say the least, we list the text of the Dutch captions): 1. Een Gaffel Schuyt, en de Have van Harlingen; 2. Een Smack, en 't Gezicht van Enckhuyse; 3. Een Koffe Schip, Nevens Broeck by Enckhuysen; 4. Een Vriesche Smack, Nevens Ropsijl van 't Westen; 5. Een Turf Schip, en de Sandhoek van Amsterdam; 6. Een Zeeuws Beurtman, en't Geitsteck by Harlingen; 7. Een Smal Schip; 8. Een Hollands Hekboot, in zyn wenden Leggende; 9. Een Hollands Fregat ter Coopvaardy, in zyn Wenden; 10. Twee Hollandse Oost-indische Scheepen, en een Hollands Fregattje (sic); 11. Een Groenlands Vaarder, en de Have van Rotterdam; 12. Een Hollans (sic) Oorlogh Schip; 13. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 2.e Rang, voerende de Vice Admiraals Vlag, maakt zig gereed om ten anker te komen; 14. Een Oorlogh Schip; 15. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 4.e Rang, op zyn Engels gebouwt, ten Anker komende; 16. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip vande 4.e Rang op zyn Engels gebouwt zyn Fok op Gyende (sic); 17. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 5.e Rang, een drie maste Hoeker, en een Jagt; 18. Een Holands Oorlog Schip van de 5.e Rang, onder Zeyl gaande en Eenige Visschers Schuijten; 19. Een zee gevegt tusschen 2 Maltheser Oorlog Scheepen, en 3 Algierse Kapers; 20. Een Frans Oorlog Schip van de 4.e Rang, ryende voor syn Ankers in een Storm.Van der Laan has drawn several series with illustrations of ships, but the present one, Zee, Land en Stroom Lust should contain an engraved title and twenty plates (see Wurzbach II, p. 1) and not seventeen plates as given by Thieme & Becker (XXII, pp. 159-160). The series has been executed in a larger format of c. 21 x 34 cm (including captions) and smaller format (c. 14 x 21.5 cm). Illustration 20 (p. 17) in De Groot & Vorstman, a Zeeland passage boat (no. 6 in our copy), measures 21.2 x 34 cm, whereas illustration 31 (p. 23), a fourth rate Dutch man of war (no. 15 in our copy), measures 13.8 x 21.6 cm. The plates in our series have been executed in the larger format. The address on the title-page, "te bekoomen by Petrus Schenk, tot Amsterdam voor aan in de Kalver-straat, in N. Visschers Atlas," provides an indication for the date of the present series. Visscher's widow Elisabeth Verseyl, who had carried on her husband's business after his death, died in 1726, and the Visscher estate was sold off, among others to Petrus Schenk II (before 1698-1775). The engraved title in Dutch, French and English is surrounded by an engraved border with Neptune at the left and a figure depicting the wind at the right. There is a female figure at the top and the remainder of the border is made up of nautical and naval instruments and equipment. Ad 2: The four final engravings bound in in the present volume are views of the Rhine by Jan van Aken after Herman Saftleven, in the third state. They show the river in a mountainous landscape and Wurzbach lists the titles as a conversation of farmers on a hill (1), a man carrying a bundle (2), catching crabs (3), reposing wanderers (4). All engravings have been signed in lower left HL inventer, Jan v. Aken fecit , and plate 1 (bound in at the end) also carries the name of Nicolaus Visscher. Herman Saftleven (1609-1685) is known for his views of the Middle Rhine and the Mosel. He signed his later work with the monogram HL (see Nagler, Monogrammisten 1219). Jan van Aken took Saftleven as his example and much of Van Aken's work was identified as being done by Saftleven. Wurzbach (I, p. 8) lists four states of Van Aken's four Rhine views: 1. avant the name of Van Aken; 2. with the address of Clement de Jonghe; 3. with the address of Nicolaus Visscher; 4. no address. The present copy is therefore the third state. The engravings measure c. 21.5 x 27.5 cm. Some marginal staining on title-page, pl. 4 and pl. 2 (Van Aken); and pl. 3 and 3 with small stains, pl. 3 marginal tear not affecting illustration. Very good copy of these fresh and very attractive nautical and landscape plates. [Bookseller: Asher Rare Books (Since 1830)]
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BLUET D'ARBERES (Bernard de); Les Oeuvres du Comte de Permission.
Paris 1600-1604 78 pi�ces reli�es en 2 vol. in-12, v�lin � recouvrement du XIXe si�cle. � Le comte de Permission �tait une esp�ce de fou qui, pour vivre, avait imagin� de faire imprimer ses r�veries amphigouriques, qu'il distribuait lui-m�me dans les rues et dans les maisons, � ceux qui voulaient bien lui faire quelques g�n�rosit�s �. � C'est Charles Nodier, qui, le premier a class� Bluet d'Arb�res dans le Charenton du Parnasse. Ce po�te, moiti� fou, moiti� sot, se qualifiait lui-m�me de comte de permission et de chevalier des ligues des treize cantons suisses. N� en 1566, au hameau d'Arb�res dans le pays de Gex, il avait commenc� par �tre berger. Certaines visions apocalyptiques le firent d'abord passer pour inspirer aux yeux des pasteurs de son village ; quelques gentill�tres savoyards s'en servirent ensuite comme d'un bouffon, et les grandes dames prirent plaisir � l'accabler d'avances peu compromettante pour elles. Jusqu'o� all�rent les choses ? on n'en sait rien ; mais comme, � cette �poque, un berger n'�tait pas plus un homme qu'un valet, on peut croire que de nombreuses libert�s lui furent permises. Le bruit de ses succ�s aupr�s des Savoyardes le pr�c�da quand il vint � Paris, et assura son succ�s dans cette ville ; les grands seigneurs se le disput�rent, comme l'avaient fait ses compatriotes, et ce sot, qui avoue lui-m�me qu'il ne savait ni lire li �crire, fit fortune �. Ensemble de la plus grande raret� constitu� de l'Intitulation et de 77 livrets (1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22 (incomplet), 23, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33 (incomplet), 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77 (incomplet), 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100). Ce recueil est illustr� de nombreuses figures et blasons grav�s sur bois, dont un certain nombre sont des bois originaux du milieu du XVIe si�cle ; parmi ces illustrations figurent les portraits des personnages charitables qui sont venus en aide � l'auteur. Il n'existe pas d'exemplaire complet de ce recueil qui compte une premi�re s�rie de cent treize livrets plus une deuxi�me s�rie num�rot�e 141 � 173. Les num�ros 86 � 90 et les num�ros 114 � 140 demeurent inconnus. La BNF poss�de une collection incompl�te de la premi�re s�rie et les num�ros 141-173. R�union exceptionnelle provenant de la collection Pierre Louys. Brunet I, 979 ; Graesse I, 443 ; Nodier, Bibliographie des fous ; Delepierre, Histoire litt�raire des fous, p.107 � 162 ; Blavier, p. 62. [Bookseller: Bonnefoi Livres Anciens]
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CASSERIO Giulio De vocis auditusque organis historia anatomica.
Ferrara, V.Baldino, 1600-01, in- folio, pp. (58), 191, 126, (2), leg. coeva p.perg., tit. in oro sutassello in pelle al dorso. Il volume ha 3 antiporta fig. tra i pi� belli della tipografia cinquecentesca: un titolo a stampa entro elaboratissima bordura con scheletri di putti alati; un ritratto del dedicatario Ranuccio Farnese, duca di Parma, ed uno dell'autore, nell'atto di sezionare una mano, entro due splendide bordure con figure allegoriche e stemmi gentilizi. L'illustrazione comprende inoltre 34 finissime tavole anatomiche n.t., 22 riguardanti gli organi vocali e 12 l'apparato auditivo. Prima edizione di questo capolavoro dell'illustrazione scientifica, il pi� bel libro di otorinolaringoiatria mai prodotto. Le tavole, stimate le pi� eleganti nella storia dell'anatomia comparata, sono state attribuite al pittore tedesco Joseph Maurer, le bordure a Jacopo Ligozzi. Il piacentino Casserio (1552-1616) fu professore di chirurgia all'universit� di Padova, ed inizi� lo studio dgli organi vocali e auditivi negli animali domestici. Bell'esemplare marginoso di questo raro libro; lievi aloni d'umido, piccolo restauro ad un angolo dei primi 5 ff. Garrison Morton 286. Hofer, Baroque, 62. Choulant 223-24. [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco s.a.s. di]
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CASSERIO, GIULIO. DE VOCIS AUDITUSQUE ORGANIS HISTORIA ANATOMICA. FERRARA, V.BALDINO, 1600-01, 1600
in- folio, pp. (58), 191, 126, (2), leg. coeva p.perg., tit. in oro su tassello in pelle al dorso. Il volume ha tre antiporta figurati. tra i piu' belli della tipografia cinquecentesca: un titolo a stampa entro elaboratissima bordura con scheletri di putti alati; un ritratto del dedicatario Ranuccio Farnese, duca di Parma, ed uno dell'autore, nell'atto di sezionare una mano, entro due splendide bordure con figure allegoriche e stemmi gentilizi. L'illustrazione comprende inoltre 34 finissime tavole anatomiche n.t., 22 riguardanti gli organi vocali e 12 l'apparato auditivo. Prima edizione di questo capolavoro dell'illustrazione scientifica, il piu' bel libro di otorinolaringoiatria mai prodotto. Le tavole, stimate le piu' eleganti nella storia dell'anatomia comparata, sono state attribuite al pittore tedesco Joseph Maurer, le bordure a Jacopo Ligozzi. Il piacentino Casserio (1552-1616) fu professore di chirurgia all'universita' di Padova, ed inizio' lo studio degli organi vocali e auditivi negli animali domestici. Bell'esemplare marginoso di questo raro libro (lievi aloni d'umido, piccolo restauro ad un angolo dei primi 5 ff.). . GARRISON MORTON 286. HOFER, BAROQUE, 62. CHOULANT 223-24. [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria PREGLIASCO�-�Torino�]
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BLUET D'ARBERES (Bernard de); Les Oeuvres du Comte de Permission.
Paris 1600-1604 - 78 pi�ces reli�es en 2 vol. in-12, v�lin � recouvrement du XIXe si�cle. � Le comte de Permission �tait une esp�ce de fou qui, pour vivre, avait imagin� de faire imprimer ses r�veries amphigouriques, qu'il distribuait lui-m�me dans les rues et dans les maisons, � ceux qui voulaient bien lui faire quelques g�n�rosit�s �. � C'est Charles Nodier, qui, le premier a class� Bluet d'Arb�res dans le Charenton du Parnasse. Ce po�te, moiti� fou, moiti� sot, se qualifiait lui-m�me de comte de permission et de chevalier des ligues des treize cantons suisses. N� en 1566, au hameau d'Arb�res dans le pays de Gex, il avait commenc� par �tre berger. Certaines visions apocalyptiques le firent d'abord passer pour inspirer aux yeux des pasteurs de son village ; quelques gentill�tres savoyards s'en servirent ensuite comme d'un bouffon, et les grandes dames prirent plaisir � l'accabler d'avances peu compromettante pour elles. Jusqu'o� all�rent les choses ? on n'en sait rien ; mais comme, � cette �poque, un berger n'�tait pas plus un homme qu'un valet, on peut croire que de nombreuses libert�s lui furent permises. Le bruit de ses succ�s aupr�s des Savoyardes le pr�c�da quand il vint � Paris, et assura son succ�s dans cette ville ; les grands seigneurs se le disput�rent, comme l'avaient fait ses compatriotes, et ce sot, qui avoue lui-m�me qu'il ne savait ni lire li �crire, fit fortune �. Ensemble de la plus grande raret� constitu� de l'Intitulation et de 77 livrets (1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22 (incomplet), 23, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33 (incomplet), 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77 (incomplet), 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100). Ce recueil est illustr� de nombreuses figures et blasons grav�s sur bois, dont un certain nombre sont des bois originaux du milieu du XVIe si�cle ; parmi ces illustrations figurent les portraits des personnages charitables qui sont venus en aide � l'auteur. Il n'existe pas d'exemplaire complet de ce recueil qui compte une premi�re s�rie de cent treize livrets plus une deuxi�me s�rie num�rot�e 141 � 173. Les num�ros 86 � 90 et les num�ros 114 � 140 demeurent inconnus. La BNF poss�de une collection incompl�te de la premi�re s�rie et les num�ros 141-173. R�union exceptionnelle provenant de la collection Pierre Louys. Brunet I, 979 ; Graesse I, 443 ; Nodier, Bibliographie des fous ; Delepierre, Histoire litt�raire des fous, p.107 � 162 ; Blavier, p. 62. fou litt�raire,Litt�rature; [Bookseller: Bonnefoi Livres Anciens]
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GEORGIEWITZ, Bartholomeus. Voiage de la saincte cite de Hierusalem. Jointe la description des citez, villes, ports, lieux, & autres passages. Ensemble les ceremonies des Turcs, avec l'estat de leur empereur, ordre de sa gendarmerie, finances, & succes de ses conquestes, &c. Pie�a descrits par Bartelemi Georgiuitz Hongrois, pelerin dudit voiage, par un long temps esclave en Turquie. Le tout remis en lumiere par M. Lambert Darmont Liegeois.
Li�ge, Leonard Streel for Lambert de la Coste, 1600. 2 books in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red title label, gilt fillet borders on covers, gilt inner dentelles, red sprinkled edges. With several woodcut borders and initials. (32), (32) lvs. Record of the pilgrimage from Paris to Jerusalem made by the Hungarian Bartholomeus Georgiewitz (early 16th century - 1560), together with a description of his experiences and findings in Turkey, where he was kept as a slave and prisoner for almost 20 years, with a separate title page and new series of quires: Discours de la maniere de vivre, et ceremonies des Turcs ... Ensemble l'estat de la court du Grand Turc, l'ordre de sa gendarmerie, & de ses finances... Li�ge, Lambert de la Coste, 1600. When Georgiewitz was 14 or 15 years old, the Turks envaded his homeland and imprisoned him. In Turkey he was sold as a slave, and employed at different places. After a few years he managed to escape, but on his way home, near the sea of Marmara, he was caught again and severely punished. After 13 years of imprisonment he could escape again. This time, he fled to Palestina, from where he could savely return to Hungaria. Later in his life he travelled to Rome, where he died in 1560. The book consists in fact of two works: the first work, the record of his pilgrimage, is extremely rare. It minutely describes Georgiewitz' journey from Paris to Jerusalem, which he made after he returned to Europe, with all the places, monuments, and people he met on his way. This work is dedicated by the editor Lambert Darmont to Edmond Baron de Schwarzenberg, and begins with four poems to Darmont by I. Poly, Lambert Ruite, G. Wipart and Balduin Gof. The second work, the French translation of one of his more known books, describes the customs and traditions of the Turks in a quite negative way, due to his own experiences. First he describes the court of the 'Grand Turk', then the way of living of the Turks and finally their ceremonies. The work is concluded with a vocabulary of the most important Turkish words, frequently used phrases such as greetings, and small dialogues, and a poem by the editor Lambert Darmont to Georgiewitz. On the two last additional leaves there is the dedication by Darmont to Arnold de Bocholtz, prevost of Hildesheim and canon in Li�ge and M�nster, dated March 7 1600, two landatory poems and a list of Turkish kings from 1051 till the beginning of the reign of Mahomet, the third son of Amurath in 1565. The original Latin edition was printed in 1544 at Antwerp; a Dutch translation appeared in the same year. Very nice copy with the bookplates of the famous Giannalisa Feltrinelli library.- (Flyleaves sl. browned). G�llner, Turcica II, 2445; Atkinson 407; De Theux, Bibliogr. Li�geoise, col. 35; Atabey 488 (other ed.); Blackmer coll. 130 (other ed.); one ex. in BNF, this edition not in NUC, Belgica Typ. or OCLC. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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BLUET D'ARBERES (Bernard de); Les Oeuvres du Comte de Permission.
Paris 1600-1604 78 pi�ces reli�es en 2 vol. in-12, v�lin � recouvrement du XIXe si�cle. � Le comte de Permission �tait une esp�ce de fou qui, pour vivre, avait imagin� de faire imprimer ses r�veries amphigouriques, qu'il distribuait lui-m�me dans les rues et dans les maisons, � ceux qui voulaient bien lui faire quelques g�n�rosit�s �. � C'est Charles Nodier, qui, le premier a class� Bluet d'Arb�res dans le Charenton du Parnasse. Ce po�te, moiti� fou, moiti� sot, se qualifiait lui-m�me de comte de permission et de chevalier des ligues des treize cantons suisses. N� en 1566, au hameau d'Arb�res dans le pays de Gex, il avait commenc� par �tre berger. Certaines visions apocalyptiques le firent d'abord passer pour inspirer aux yeux des pasteurs de son village ; quelques gentill�tres savoyards s'en servirent ensuite comme d'un bouffon, et les grandes dames prirent plaisir � l'accabler d'avances peu compromettante pour elles. Jusqu'o� all�rent les choses ? on n'en sait rien ; mais comme, � cette �poque, un berger n'�tait pas plus un homme qu'un valet, on peut croire que de nombreuses libert�s lui furent permises. Le bruit de ses succ�s aupr�s des Savoyardes le pr�c�da quand il vint � Paris, et assura son succ�s dans cette ville ; les grands seigneurs se le disput�rent, comme l'avaient fait ses compatriotes, et ce sot, qui avoue lui-m�me qu'il ne savait ni lire li �crire, fit fortune �. Ensemble de la plus grande raret� constitu� de l'Intitulation et de 77 livrets (1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22 (incomplet), 23, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33 (incomplet), 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77 (incomplet), 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100). Ce recueil est illustr� de nombreuses figures et blasons grav�s sur bois, dont un certain nombre sont des bois originaux du milieu du XVIe si�cle ; parmi ces illustrations figurent les portraits des personnages charitables qui sont venus en aide � l'auteur. Il n'existe pas d'exemplaire complet de ce recueil qui compte une premi�re s�rie de cent treize livrets plus une deuxi�me s�rie num�rot�e 141 � 173. Les num�ros 86 � 90 et les num�ros 114 � 140 demeurent inconnus. La BNF poss�de une collection incompl�te de la premi�re s�rie et les num�ros 141-173. R�union exceptionnelle provenant de la biblioth�que Pierre Louys. Brunet I, 979 ; Graesse I, 443 ; Nodier, Bibliographie des fous ; Delepierre, Histoire litt�raire des fous, p.107 � 162 ; Blavier p. 62. [Bookseller: Bonnefoi Livres Anciens]
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MONTE, Guidobaldo del. Perspectivae Libri Sex.
Pesaro Hieronymus Concordia 1600. - Folio [34 x 245 cm] (2) ff., 310 pp., (1) f. Bound in contemporary cartonnato, untrimmed. Tiny wormtrack through title and following leaves; another smaller track affecting partial letter on title and same on a few subsequent leaves; minor staining on a handful of leaves, but generally a fresh and broad-margined copy, retaining original size, excellent. Scarce first, sole edition and unusually genuine copy of "one of the most important contributions to both theoretical and applied perspective" (Breman apud Wiebenson), by the great mathematical physicist and Galileo patron, Guidobaldo del Monte. The book?s outstanding achievement was to establish for the first time the concept of the vanishing point, which has remained the cornerstone of all theories of perspective to the present day. "Guidobaldo?s book rightly came to be regarded as the main source of reference for anyone seriously interested in the underlying geometry of perspectival projection." -- Kemp, p. 91. The work had wide repercussions from the Florentine painter Cigoli to Galileo, who is known to have seen the work in manuscript as early as 1594 and whose treatment of the moon?s shadows in the illustrations to the Sidereus Nuncius have been shown to be influenced by Monte: "Book V on how cones and irregular geometric solids cast shadows and his treatment of the moon and on that and inclined planes would certainly have been read by Galileo." -- Edgerton, p. 226. The sixth book on scenography "ranks in the literature of theater perspective along with Serlio, Sabbatini. and Carini-Motta." -- Breman. * Berlin 4703; Vagneti E ll b 41; Wiebenson III B 12; M. Kemp, The Science of Art, pp. 89ff.; P.L.Rose, The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics, pp.222-36; Drake, Galileo at Work, 35, 66-7; Edgerton, Art Journal XLIV (l985) 225-48, with further references in n. 9. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover] [Bookseller: Martayan Lan]
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GEORGIEWITZ, Bartholomeus. Voiage de la saincte cite de Hierusalem. Jointe la description des citez, villes, ports, lieux, & autres passages. Ensemble les ceremonies des Turcs, avec l'estat de leur empereur, ordre de sa gendarmerie, finances, & succes de ses conquestes, &c. Pie�a descrits par Bartelemi Georgiuitz Hongrois, pelerin dudit voiage, par un long temps esclave en Turquie. Le tout remis en lumiere par M. Lambert Darmont Liegeois.
Li�ge, Leonard Streel for Lambert de la Coste, 1600. 2 books in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red title label, gilt fillet borders on covers, gilt inner dentelles, red sprinkled edges. With several woodcut borders and initials. (32), (32) lvs. Record of the pilgrimage from Paris to Jerusalem made by the Hungarian Bartholomeus Georgiewitz (early 16th century - 1560), together with a description of his experiences and findings in Turkey, where he was kept as a slave and prisoner for almost 20 years, with a separate title page and new series of quires: Discours de la maniere de vivre, et ceremonies des Turcs. Ensemble l'estat de la court du Grand Turc, l'ordre de sa gendarmerie, & de ses finances. Li�ge, Lambert de la Coste, 1600. When Georgiewitz was 14 or 15 years old, the Turks envaded his homeland and imprisoned him. In Turkey he was sold as a slave, and employed at different places. After a few years he managed to escape, but on his way home, near the sea of Marmara, he was caught again and severely punished. After 13 years of imprisonment he could escape again. This time, he fled to Palestina, from where he could savely return to Hungaria. Later in his life he travelled to Rome, where he died in 1560. The book consists in fact of two works: the first work, the record of his pilgrimage, is extremely rare. It minutely describes Georgiewitz' journey from Paris to Jerusalem, which he made after he returned to Europe, with all the places, monuments, and people he met on his way. This work is dedicated by the editor Lambert Darmont to Edmond Baron de Schwarzenberg, and begins with four poems to Darmont by I. Poly, Lambert Ruite, G. Wipart and Balduin Gof. The second work, the French translation of one of his more known books, describes the customs and traditions of the Turks in a quite negative way, due to his own experiences. First he describes the court of the 'Grand Turk', then the way of living of the Turks and finally their ceremonies. The work is concluded with a vocabulary of the most important Turkish words, frequently used phrases such as greetings, and small dialogues, and a poem by the editor Lambert Darmont to Georgiewitz. On the two last additional leaves there is the dedication by Darmont to Arnold de Bocholtz, prevost of Hildesheim and canon in Li�ge and M�nster, dated March 7 1600, two landatory poems and a list of Turkish kings from 1051 till the beginning of the reign of Mahomet, the third son of Amurath in 1565. The original Latin edition was printed in 1544 at Antwerp; a Dutch translation appeared in the same year. Very nice copy with the bookplates of the famous Giannalisa Feltrinelli library.- (Flyleaves sl. browned). G�llner, Turcica II, 2445; Atkinson 407; De Theux, Bibliogr. Li�geoise, col. 35; Atabey 488 (other ed.); Blackmer coll. 130 (other ed.); one ex. in BNF, this edition not in NUC, Belgica Typ. or OCLC. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Antiquariaat FORUM BV]
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GILBERT, WILLIAM. DE MAGNETE, MAGNETICIS QUE CORPORIBUS, ET DE MAGNO MAGNETE TELLURE: PHYSIOLOGIA NOVA, PLURIMIS ET ARGUMENTIS & EXPERIMENTIS DEMONSTRATA. LONDON: PETER SHORT, 1600.
Folio. 8, A-V6. [16],240pp. Modern antique-style full calf,with center-piece and rules in blind, spine banded title gilt; 8 ink corections, as usual, thought to be in Gilbert�s own hand; occ. foxing, a very nice copy; a leaf of contemporary notes is inserted between pages 126 & 127 in Latin. Title with woodcut printer"s device on recto and Gilbert"s woodcut arms on verso. 88 woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text (4 full-page), one folding. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. First Edition. Gilbert"s (1544-1603) De Magnete is "a remarkable work in the history of scientific discovery. It cost the author 18 years of investigation and experiment. Large marginal asterisks mark what he considered great discoveries, and small asterisks minor ones. There are 21 of the former and 178 of the latter. Gilbert shows that a freely suspended magnet is controlled by the earth and not, as supposed, by extra-terrestrial influences. His magnetic theory enabled him to explain the behavior of the compass-needle, the dip-needle, the magnetic condition of vertical masses of iron, and the magnetic properties of heated iron bars when allowed to cool while lying in the magnetic meridian... Gilbert is chary of prose and wrathful in denunciation; he was a staunch Coperican, and warm friend of Kepler and Galileo." [Wheeler Gift.] "...it is with Gilbert, who was physician to Queen Elizabeth I, that the modern development of electricity and magnetism really starts. His book "On the Magnet" was the first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research... He coined the terms "electricity," "electric force," and "electric attraction"... He contended that the earth was one great magnet; he distinguished magnetic mass from weight; and he worked on the application of terrestrial magnetism to navigation..." [PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN.] STC 11883. PMM 107. Horblit 41. Sparrow 85. Dibner 54.Houzeau & Lancaster 2870. Norman 905. Osler 675. Wheeler Gift 72. Durling/NLM 2099. ESTC s121112.Neville I,522. [Bookseller: Booksellers KROWN & SPELLMAN�-�Culver Ci*]
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Gilbert, William. De Magnete,
London: Peter Short, 1600. Folio. 8, A-V6. [16],240pp. Modern antique-style full calf,with center-piece and rules in blind, spine banded title gilt; 8 ink corections, as usual, thought to be in Gilbert�s own hand; occ. foxing, a very nice copy; a leaf of contemporary notes is inserted between pages 126 & 127 in Latin. Title with woodcut printer"s device on recto and Gilbert"s woodcut arms on verso. 88 woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text (4 full-page), one folding. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. First Edition. Gilbert"s (1544-1603) De Magnete is "a remarkable work in the history of scientific discovery. It cost the author 18 years of investigation and experiment. Large marginal asterisks mark what he considered great discoveries, and small asterisks minor ones. There are 21 of the former and 178 of the latter. Gilbert shows that a freely suspended magnet is controlled by the earth and not, as supposed, by extra-terrestrial influences. His magnetic theory enabled him to explain the behavior of the compass-needle, the dip-needle, the magnetic condition of vertical masses of iron, and the magnetic properties of heated iron bars when allowed to cool while lying in the magnetic meridian... Gilbert is chary of prose and wrathful in denunciation; he was a staunch Coperican, and warm friend of Kepler and Galileo." [Wheeler Gift.] "...it is with Gilbert, who was physician to Queen Elizabeth I, that the modern development of electricity and magnetism really starts. His book "On the Magnet" was the first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research... He coined the terms "electricity," "electric force," and "electric attraction"... He contended that the earth was one great magnet; he distinguished magnetic mass from weight; and he worked on the application of terrestrial magnetism to navigation..." [PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN.] STC 11883. ESTC s121112. PMM 107. Horblit 41. Sparrow 85. Dibner 54.Houzeau & Lancaster 2870. Norman 905. Osler 675. Wheeler Gift 72. Durling/NLM 2099. ESTC s121112.Neville I,522. [Bookseller: Krown & Spellman, Booksellers*]
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GEORGIEWITZ, Bartholomeus. Recollections of a former slave Voiage de la saincte cite de Hierusalem. Jointe la description des citez, villes, ports, lieux, & autres passages. Ensemble les ceremonies des Turcs, avec l'estat de leur empereur, ordre de sa gendarmerie, finances, & succes de ses conquestes, &c. Pieca descrits par Bartelemi Georgiuitz Hongrois, pelerin dudit voiage, par un long temps esclave en Turquie. Le tout remis en lumiere par M. Lambert Darmont Liegeois.
Liege, Leonard Streel for Lambert de la Coste, 1600.. 2 books in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red title label, gilt fillet borders on covers, gilt inner dentelles, red sprinkled edges. With several woodcut borders and initials. (32), (32) lvs.. Record of the pilgrimage from Paris to Jerusalem made by the Hungarian Bartholomeus Georgiewitz (early 16th century - 1560), together with a description of his experiences and findings in Turkey, where he was kept as a slave and prisoner for almost 20 years, with a separate title page and new series of quires: Discours de la maniere de vivre, et ceremonies des Turcs ... Ensemble l'estat de la court du Grand Turc, l'ordre de sa gendarmerie, & de ses finances... Liege, Lambert de la Coste, 1600. When Georgiewitz was 14 or 15 years old, the Turks envaded his homeland and imprisoned him. In Turkey he was sold as a slave, and employed at different places. After a few years he managed to escape, but on his way home, near the sea of Marmara, he was caught again and severely punished. After 13 years of imprisonment he could escape again. This time, he fled to Palestina, from where he could savely return to Hungaria. Later in his life he travelled to Rome, where he died in 1560. The book consists in fact of two works: the first work, the record of his pilgrimage, is extremely rare. It minutely describes Georgiewitz' journey from Paris to Jerusalem, which he made after he returned to Europe, with all the places, monuments, and people he met on his way. This work is dedicated by the editor Lambert Darmont to Edmond Baron de Schwarzenberg, and begins with four poems to Darmont by I. Poly, Lambert Ruite, G. Wipart and Balduin Gof. The second work, the French translation of one of his more known books, describes the customs and traditions of the Turks in a quite negative way, due to his own experiences. First he describes the court of the 'Grand Turk', then the way of living of the Turks and finally their ceremonies. The work is concluded with a vocabulary of the most important Turkish words, frequently used phrases such as greetings, and small dialogues, and a poem by the editor Lambert Darmont to Georgiewitz. On the two last additional leaves there is the dedication by Darmont to Arnold de Bocholtz, prevost of Hildesheim and canon in Liege and M�nster, dated March 7 1600, two landatory poems and a list of Turkish kings from 1051 till the beginning of the reign of Mahomet, the third son of Amurath in 1565. The original Latin edition was printed in 1544 at Antwerp; a Dutch translation appeared in the same year. Very nice copy with the bookplates of the famous Giannalisa Feltrinelli library.- (Flyleaves sl. browned). G�llner, Turcica II, 2445; Atkinson 407; De Theux, Bibliogr. Liegeoise , col. 35; Atabey 488 (other ed.); Blackmer coll . 130 (other ed.); one ex. in BNF, this edition not in NUC, Belgica Typ. or OCLC. [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Forum BV]
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